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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - Poor first diagnostic on ambiguous namespace reference"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20373">20373</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Poor first diagnostic on ambiguous namespace reference
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>C++
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>nicolasweber@gmx.de
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>dgregor@apple.com, llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Nicos-MacBook-Pro:src thakis$ cat test.cc
namespace Foo { class Bar {}; }

namespace A = Foo;
namespace { namespace A = Foo; }

void f() {
  A::Bar b;
}
Nicos-MacBook-Pro:src thakis$ ~/src/llvm-build/bin/clang -c test.cc
test.cc:7:3: error: 'A' is not a class, namespace, or scoped enumeration
  A::Bar b;
  ^
test.cc:7:3: error: reference to 'A' is ambiguous
  A::Bar b;
  ^
test.cc:3:11: note: candidate found by name lookup is 'A'
namespace A = Foo;
          ^
test.cc:4:23: note: candidate found by name lookup is '(anonymous
namespace)::A'
namespace { namespace A = Foo; }
                      ^
2 errors generated.


The second error is great, but the first shouldn't be there. We had this bug
somewhere and were building with -ferror-limit=1 for some reason, and due to
that first diagnostic it took me longer to understand what's going on than it
should have.</pre>
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